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- Nov 07, 2020
Government Quotes
Testimony, accountability and risk assessment.
These "government" quotes come largely from public testimony and accountability — speakers describing appearances before Congress and the basic expectation that citizens deserve clear answers from officials. For related themes, see Business quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures. This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
- Commune
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020